Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:57:11 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install broken on the 970124 snap (fwd) Message-ID: <9904.854585831@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:34:58 PST." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128193451.24983G-100000@localhost>
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> Little problem with installation on yesterday's SNAP release. I am doing > an install from a dos partition, and I copied everything correctly into > c:\freebsd\bin. When I get to the point in the install where it is to > do the extraction of the distributions, the install says it can't find > the bin distribution. I put the install system into debug mode to watch > the festivities, and it seemed to be snagging the bin.inf and choking on > it. It was bombing out with an error about a "P" and it couldn't find > "pieces". > > I played with it for a bit, and if you edit bin.inf and change the "Pieces > = 72" to "pieces = 72" it works correctly. Hmmm. I doubt that the applied fix was actually responsible for fixing it since case is ignored (I use strcasecmp() for the attribute name lookup), but perhaps he's run into a different error masquerading as such. I'll look into it. Jordan
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